General subcommands

configget

Syntax:
vmm configget option
vmm cg option

This subcommand is used to display the actual value of the given configuration option.

Example:

root@host:~# vmm configget misc.crypt_sha512_rounds
misc.crypt_sha512_rounds = 5000

New in version 0.6.0.

configset

Syntax:
vmm configset option value
vmm cs option value

Use this subcommand to set or update a single configuration option’s value. option is the configuration option, value is the option’s new value.

Note

This subcommand will create a new vmm.cfg without any comments. Your current configuration file will be backed as vmm.cfg.bak.

Example:

root@host:~# vmm configget domain.transport
domain.transport = dovecot:
root@host:~# vmm configset domain.transport lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp
root@host:~# vmm cg domain.transport
domain.transport = lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp

New in version 0.6.0.

configure

Syntax:
vmm configure [-s section]
vmm cf [-s section]

Starts the interactive configuration for all configuration sections.

In this process the currently set value of each option will be displayed in square brackets. If no value is configured, the default value of each option will be displayed in square brackets. Press the return key, to accept the displayed value.

If the optional argument section is given, only the configuration options from the given section will be displayed and will be configurable. The following sections are available:

section

description

account

Account settings

bin

Paths to external binaries

database

Database settings

domain

Domain settings

mailbox

Mailbox settings

misc

Miscellaneous settings

All configuration options are described in vmm.cfg(5).

Note

This subcommand will create a new vmm.cfg without any comments. Your current configuration file will be backed as vmm.cfg.bak.

Example:

root@host:~# vmm configure -s mailbox
Using configuration file: /usr/local/etc/vmm.cfg

* Configuration section: `mailbox'
Enter new value for option folders [Drafts:Sent:Templates:Trash]:
Enter new value for option format [maildir]: mdbox
Enter new value for option subscribe [True]:
Enter new value for option root [Maildir]: mdbox

getuser

Syntax:
vmm getuser uid
vmm gu ui

If only the uid is available, for example from process list, the subcommand getuser will show the user’s address.

Example:

root@host:~# vmm getuser 79876
Account information
-------------------
        UID............: 79876
        GID............: 70704
        Address........: a.user@example.com

listaddresses

Syntax:
vmm listaddresses [-p pattern]
vmm ll [-p pattern]

This command lists all defined addresses. Addresses belonging to alias-domains are prefixed with a ‘-’, addresses of regular domains with a ‘+’. Additionally, the letters ‘u’, ‘a’, and ‘r’ indicate the type of each address: user, alias and relocated respectively. The output can be limited with an optional pattern.

To perform a wild card search, the % character can be used at the start and/or the end of the pattern.

If you do not include an ‘@’-character in your pattern, the command will only match your pattern against the fqdn of the addresses. A pattern like: %user%@%example% will match against any address that contains the term ‘user’ in its local-part AND ‘example’ in its fqdn.

Example:

root@host:~# vmm ll -p example.com
Matching addresses
------------------
        [u+] a.user@example.com
        [r+] b.user@example.com
        [u+] d.user@example.com
        [u+] john.doe@example.com
        [u+] postmaster@example.com
        [a+] support@example.com

New in version 0.6.0.

listaliases

Syntax:
vmm listaliases [-p pattern]
vmm la [-p pattern]

This command lists all defined aliases. Aliases belonging to alias-domains are prefixed with a ‘-’, addresses of regular domains with a ‘+’. The output can be limited with an optional pattern.

To perform a wild card search, the % character can be used at the start and/or the end of the pattern.

If you do not include an ‘@’-character in your pattern, the command will only match your pattern against the fqdn of the addresses. A pattern like: %user%@%example% will match against any address that contains the term ‘user’ in its local-part AND ‘example’ in its fqdn.

Example:

root@host:~# vmm listaliases -p example.com
Matching aliases
----------------
        [+] support@example.com

New in version 0.6.0.

listdomains

Syntax:
vmm listdomains [-p pattern]
vmm ld [-p pattern]

This subcommand lists all available domains. All domain names will be prefixed either with ‘[+]’, if the domain is a primary domain, or with ‘[-]’, if it is an alias domain name. The output can be limited with an optional pattern.

To perform a wild card search, the % character can be used at the start and/or the end of the pattern.

Example:

root@host:~# vmm listdomains -p %example%
Matching domains
----------------
        [+] example.com
        [-]     e.g.example.com
        [-]     example.name
        [+] example.net
        [+] example.org

listpwschemes

Syntax:
vmm listpwschemes
vmm lp

This subcommand lists all password schemes which could be used in the vmm.cfg as value of the misc.password_scheme option. The output varies, depending on the used Dovecot version and the system’s libc.

Additionally a few usable encoding suffixes will be displayed. One of them can be appended to the password scheme.

Example:

root@host:~# vmm listpwschemes
Usable password schemes
-----------------------
        CLEARTEXT CRAM-MD5 CRYPT DIGEST-MD5 HMAC-MD5 LANMAN LDAP-MD5 MD5
        MD5-CRYPT NTLM OTP PLAIN PLAIN-MD4 PLAIN-MD5 RPA SHA SHA1 SHA256
        SHA256-CRYPT SHA512 SHA512-CRYPT SKEY SMD5 SSHA SSHA256 SSHA512

Usable encoding suffixes
------------------------
        .B64 .BASE64 .HEX

New in version 0.6.0.

listrelocated

Syntax:
vmm listrelocated [-p pattern]
vmm lr [-p pattern]

This command lists all defined relocated addresses. Relocated entries belonging to alias-domains are prefixed with a ‘-‘, addresses of regular domains with a ‘+’. The output can be limited with an optional pattern.

To perform a wild card search, the % character can be used at the start and/or the end of the pattern.

If you do not include an ‘@’-character in your pattern, the command will only match your pattern against the fqdn of the addresses. A pattern like: %user%@%example% will match against any address that contains the term ‘user’ in its local-part AND ‘example’ in its fqdn.

Example:

root@host:~# vmm listrelocated -p example.com
Matching relocated users
------------------------
        [+] b.user@example.com

New in version 0.6.0.

listusers

Syntax:
vmm listusers [-p pattern]
vmm lu [-p pattern]

This command lists all user accounts. User accounts belonging to alias-domains are prefixed with a ‘-’, addresses of regular domains with a ‘+’. The output can be limited with an optional pattern.

To perform a wild card search, the % character can be used at the start and/or the end of the pattern.

If you do not include an ‘@’-character in your pattern, the command will only match your pattern against the fqdn of the addresses. A pattern like: %user%@%example% will match against any address that contains the term ‘user’ in its local-part AND ‘example’ in its fqdn.

Example:

root@host:~# vmm listusers -p example.com
Matching user accounts
----------------------
        [+] a.user@example.com
        [+] d.user@example.com
        [+] john.doe@example.com
        [+] postmaster@example.com

New in version 0.6.0.